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Originally Posted by Simon Hadfield
About Mallory, when the back of the exit kerb at the Esses was removed the circuit lost about 2 tenths on a like for like basis, the previous ability to straighten up earlier carried more revs into the Hairpin. With a historic FF the time dropped from 49.6 to 49.8. The recent resurfacing made the circuit incredibly fast for a short time - 49.0 in a historic (!) but it seemed to have settled back through the year, except the new surface seems more affected by outside influences - ambient temperature, drifting, motorcycle racing, oil etc - than the old surface was
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Totally aggree with that, you used to able to run the whole car over the kerb on the left of the esses, now its so narrow and aggressive you can barley use it all. Can you remember when it was removed? had a feeling it was still there in 2009